Collection of short comedy
plays opens in Tillamook
Catch live music at Sou’Wester
TAPA presents ‘Nothing Serious’
SEAVIEW, Wash. —
The
Sou’Wester Lodge offers two
nights of live music this week-
end.
First, Portland singer-song-
writer Shelley Short will per-
form at 8 p.m. Friday, March 11.
Short grew up among char-
acters and artists in a wood-heat-
ed home full of books, records,
and wellcooked meals.
“It was like growing up in
a time machine; in some ways
we lived like in 1876: chopping
wood, growing our own food,
wearing old clothes in a Victo-
rian home and singing our own
songs,” Short says. “Other times
it seemed like we were living in
1955, driving around Cadillacs
and Studebakers and listening to
Jonny Ray and The Flamingos.
And yet it all felt like growing
up in a blurring movie made in
1963, full of these big personal-
ities. As a kid I grew up so ac-
customed to falling asleep to the
sound of talk and laughter that
when I moved out, the silence
got to me.”
Then, Portland folk band
Alialujah Choir will perform at
TILLAMOOK — The Tillamook
Association for the Perform-
ing Arts presents the ensemble
comedy “Nothing Serious” this
weekend.
The play opens Friday,
March 11 with an Opening Night
Gala Celebration. Every ticket
purchased will include compli-
mentary hors d’oeuvres and a
beverage of choice.
The show runs through
March 27. Friday and Saturday
performances begin at 7 p.m.,
and Sunday matinees will begin
at 2 p.m. Doors open 30 minutes
prior to curtain. The Barn Com-
munity Playhouse is located at
1204 Ivy St.
“Nothing Serious,” written
by Richard Orloff and direct-
ed by Rikki Reid, is a series of
Orloff’s 10 most popular short
comedies. From Antarctica and
Disneyland to the Garden of
Eden and inside the womb, his
theatrical worlds are both imag-
inative and hilarious.
The Honolulu Advertiser
called it “genuine fun that can’t
help being contagious,” while
the Rochester Post-Bulletin from
Minnesota said, “A lot of laughs.
Orloff’s skits are quick, clever,
funny and touching.”
The play’s cast is made up of
TAPA veterans as well as new-
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ance on the TAPA stage.
Directed by
Sheila Shaffer
By Reginald Rose
Adapted by Sherman L. Sergel
March 11,12,18,19
at 7:30 pm
March 13 at 3 pm
CCC PERFORMING
ARTS CENTER
588 16th Street, Astoria
Tickets - $15.00
http://www.supportthepac.org
Permission from Dramatic Publishing
Shelley Short, Alialujah Choir to perform
‘Nothing Serious’
7 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
March 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26
2 p.m. Sunday, March 20 and 27
Barn Community Playhouse
1204 Ivey St., Tillamook
$15 adults, $10 children 12 and under
Submitted photo
Singer-songwriter Shelley Short will perform March 11 at the Sou’Wester Lodge.
The cast includes seasoned
performers Becki Wilhelm, San-
dra Koops, Karen Downs, Kim-
ber Lundy and Holly Waggerby.
Making their TAPA debut will
be Lynn Lothman, Abby Absher,
Karyn Wigant, Lelani Waggerby,
Irene Barajas, Daniel Reid, John
Nordling and Tom Connaugh-
ton.
Tickets are $15 per person,
and children 12 and under are
$10. Reserved seating is avail-
able through Diamond Art Jew-
elers located at 307 Main St.; call
Submitted photo by Tarina Westlund Photography
503-842-7940 for reservations. Alialujah Choir will perform at the Sou’Wester Lodge on March 12.
For more information, email
info@tillamooktheater.com
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community theater dedicated to Bonnie Henderson to speak at Cannon Beach history center
providing high quality perform-
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CANNON BEACH — Oregon Obviously humans have been ty Press in 2014. Her 2008
tertainment, education and com- author Bonnie Henderson will walking on the Oregon Coast book “Strand: An Odyssey of
munity participation.
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at the Cannon Beach History it — much longer than that. listed as a Best Book of 2008
Center & Museum at 7 p.m. How long? And for how long by the Seattle Times and was
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Henderson is the author of where it is today? It turns out Book Awards. She is also the
four books, including the new- WKDW VFLHQWL¿F FRQVHQVXV RQ author of two popular hiking
ly released second edition of both questions has evolved guidebooks, the aforemen-
“Day Hiking: Oregon Coast,” radically in just the past few tioned “Day Hiking: Oregon
which includes a comprehen- years, thanks to ground-break- Coast” and “Mountaineers
sive guide to the Oregon Coast ing research in archaeology Books: Best Hikes with
Trail. The OCT is unique in and paleogeology, much of it Kids: Oregon,” now in its
the nation: a border-to-border by Oregon scientists.
third edition.
shoreline trail incorporating
Henderson will discuss all
Her varied journalism ca-
more than 200 miles of sandy this in her talk “6,000 Years reer has included newspaper
beach linked by footpaths over on the Edge: History and Pre- and magazine writing and
headlands and boat shuttles history of the Oregon Coast editing. Today she is primar-
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ily focused on exploring the
conceived in the late 1950s
Henderson is author of intersection of the natural
and was declared “hikeable” the critically acclaimed book world and the human experi-
by Oregon State Parks in 1988. “The Next Tsunami: Living on ence close to home. She lives
But that’s just the history; a Restless Coast,” published in Eugene.
what about the prehistory? by Oregon State Universi-
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8 p.m. Saturday, March 12.
Alialujah Choir came about
when three well-known mem-
bers of Portland’s music scene
took time away from the com-
forts and constraints of their
primary bands (Weinland,
Norfolk & Western, M.Ward)
to focus on the natural beauty
they found when singing songs
from their more personal artis-
tic quivers.
With the enlistment of a few
local luminaries from Blind
Pilot, Hook & Anchor and
Neko Case’s band, Alialujah
Choir now boasts an extend-
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sounds while preserving the
intimate sensibilities the band
was founded upon. The group’s
newest album, “Big Picture
Show,” was released in Febru-
ary 2015.
Sparse arrangements create
an open bed for two-, three- and
four-part vocal harmony, and
instrumentation ranges from a
guitar to an upright piano to a
Theremin and a marching drum,
allowing Alialujah Choir to sing
their stories in ethereal allure.
Learn the history of the Oregon Coast Trail
Submitted photo
Bonnie Henderson will speak about her
book “Day Hiking: Oregon Coast” at the
Cannon Beach History Center & Museum
on March 17.
and open to the public. For
more information, visit cbhsi-
tory.org or call 503-436-9301.
The Cannon Beach History
Center & Museum is located
at 1387 S. Spruce St.